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The @librarycongress has announced #CitizenDJ, a huge online repository of 100 years' worth of public domain and open access music clips intended to be remixed in new hiphop music.

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You can search the repository by sound/metadata, mix new tracks over hiphop beats, and pull curated "sample packs" to use for more ambitious projects.

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It's the project of the LoC's innovator-in-residence Brian Foo, who says that he wants to bring back the golden age of hiphop sampling, before clearances and permissions began to determine who could make which music.

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"Today, collage-based hip hop as it existed in the golden age is largely a lost (or at best, a prohibitively expensive) artform."

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"If there was a simple way to discover, access, and use public domain material for music making, a new generation of hip hop artists and producers can maximize their creativity, invent new sounds, and connect listeners to materials otherwise be hidden from public ears."

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